He sounds legit.
People in the United States wire approximately $25 billion per year to Mexico alone. That would be $1.25 billion per year to build the wall, and Mexico would in essence be paying for it.
We pay damn good tax money for our government to do its damn job and protect the sovereignty of our country.
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/3/17930092/usmca-nafta-trump-trade-deal-explained
Here are the biggest changes:
Country of origin rules: Automobiles must have 75 percent of their components manufactured in Mexico, the US, or Canada to qualify for zero tariffs (up from 62.5 percent under NAFTA).
Labor provisions: 40 to 45 percent of automobile parts have to be made by workers who earn at least $16 an hour by 2023. Mexico has also agreed to pass laws giving workers the right to union representation, extending labor protections to migrant workers, and protecting women from discrimination. The countries can also sanction one another for labor violations.
US farmers get more access to the Canadian dairy market: The US got Canada to open up its dairy market to US farmers, which was a big issue for Trump.
Intellectual property and digital trade: The deal extends the terms of copyright to 70 years beyond the life of the author (up from 50). It also extends the period that a pharmaceutical drug can be protected from generic competition, and includes new provisions to deal with the digital economy, including prohibiting duties on things like music and e-books, and protections for internet companies so they’re not liable for content their users produce.
No section 232 tariff protections: Section 232 is a trade loophole that Trump used to impose steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and the European Union. Canada and Mexico wanted protections from these tariffs as part of the NAFTA negotiations, and the fact that tariffs are still in place remains a sore subject, particularly for Canada. Canada and Mexico did get the US to make a side agreement that shields them from possible auto tariffs under 232.
Sunset clause: The agreement adds a 16-year “sunset” clause — meaning the terms of the agreement expire, or “sunset,” after a set period of time. The deal is also subject to a review every six years, at which point the US, Mexico, and Canada can decide to extend the USMCA.
THE BORDER WALL: What it’s REALLY ABOUT!
As anyone with a brain saw during the “Kavanaugh Klusterhump”, the Marxist/Socialist Democrats on the Left (but I repeat myself, thrice) will do ANYTHING to seize and retain P.O.W.E.R. Senator Graham got it exactly right during that would-be lynching.
In addition to their having philosophically captured HUGE slugs of the academic, judicial, administrative and, yes, ecclesiastical sectors beginning back in the Wilson and Roosevelt eras, their Marxist Socialist Utopia was not developing quickly enough for them.
Comes then the so-called “Feminist Revolution” of the 70s during which the Left convinced millions of American women that having, raising children and maintaining a home (and “baking cookies”!) was BENEATH THEM. The feminists succeeded in persuading women that despite the historically valid fact that mothers performed one of the most vital activities necessary to preserve a national culture: The passing down to the young the values FORMERLY considered essential to the maintenance of the culture. Millions of now “emancipated” women fled the home for the workplace and, as a direct result, the birthrate dropped to around 1.2 child per couple, below the 2.1 figure necessary to offset the mortality rate. Our native population is SHRINKING and that trend continues. (Obviously, this topic requires a separate analysis and essay.)
Over the post-Wilson/FDR years, the Left – aided by quasi-socialist Republicans – erected a welfare system designed to lure the less “ambitious” among us to the dole. Not only have the less “ambitious” native born availed themselves of those programs, so have the estimated 22 million who have managed to slip through our currently porous border. Thanks also mainly to the efforts of Democrats when they have succeeded in gaining majorities in Congress and the White House, eligibility rules for those programs have been relaxed for most of those 22 million. Though they probably needn’t have done so, Democrats continually remind those scores of millions of welfare recipients – legal and ILLEGAL – that they owe their fealty and their VOTES – again, legal and ILLEGAL (think Broward County here and only God knows how many others) to – THEIR DEMOCRAT BENFACTORS.
Which brings us to today.
These new, improved leftist Democrats – and some very stupid and short-sighted National Chamber of Commerce GOP business types seeking bottom line enhancing slave wage workers - want these mostly young, physically fit, military age MEN to fill in the ranks of their already significant cohort of loyal welfare constituent Democrat voters in order to assure their ascent to and hold on the political power necessary to fully birth their cockamamie Utopian tyranny despite the history of tragic and deadly failure for which such systems are infamous.
And those millions of young, physically fit military age men (an unknown number of whom are MS13 and other criminals)? They will become the modern equivalent of Hitler’s Storm Troopers or Einsatzgruppen the ruling Democrats will conscript to ruthlessly – and successfully — crush the resistance to their Utopian tyranny by the by-then minority of remaining Americans who remembered and cherished the Founders’ vision of liberty and promise for this place — this IDEA – called “AMERICA”.
Dick Bachert
12/13/2018
PS: If you missed it the other day, I’d urge you to read “America’s Cold Civil War” by Dr. Kesler here: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/americas-cold-civil-war/
PFL
I just donated $20.00. Can’t hurt. The total is above $750,000.00